Welcome to the AHIMA State Privacy Law Resource tool. This tool provides AHIMA members with web links to sites with specific information regarding the final HIPAA privacy rules and their interaction with state laws and regulations. On many of these sites, you will find access to HIPAA preemptio....

States view health IT as a key component of their efforts to improve healthcare, and in recent years they have made significant efforts to address the challenges to its implementation. From 2007 to 2008, state legislatures introduced more than 380 bills with provisions relating to health IT. O....